Tuesday March 9th, 2004

In a newsgroup message about the Mozilla 1.7 Beta freeze, Asa Dotzler writes: "Yep, we're there again. The Mozilla 1.7 Beta freeze happens this Tuesday night at midnight. Beta is last-chance for changes that impact localizations so get those string changing fixes and features landed ASAP or let drivers@mozilla.org know if you're going to have trouble getting them in before Beta.

Not "supposed" to be. "Would be nice if they were", rather. And I would have felt more like "supposed" about it if I had known that FF was planning to ship 1.0 off that branch.

That said, they will _not_ be basing 1.0 on 1.7_beta_ but on 1.7. Keep in mind that the next several weeks are devoted precisely to ironing out whatever issues may exist in current builds as a result of the major changes that happened in alpha and beta.